Robert Sullivan Poetry Reading

Poetry Reading from his new collection "Voice Carried My Family." Robert Sullivan is a member of the Maori tribes Nga Puhi of Northland in New Zealand, Ngati Raukawa and Kai Tahu. He is also of Galway Irish descent. Since 1990 he has written five books of poetry published by Auckland University Press, a graphic novel illustrated by Chris Slane called Maui: legends of the outcast, and a children’s book Weaving earth and sky: myths and legends of Aotearoa (Random House) - which won both Book of the Year and the Non-Fiction Category in the 2003 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards. His first book, Jazz Waiata, won the PEN (NZ) Best First Book of Poetry award. He co-edited with Professor Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri an anthology of Polynesian poetry in English, Whetu Moana (AUP and UHP, 2003) which won the Montana National New Zealand Book Award in the reference and anthology category.

In 1998 he was the Literary Fellow at the University of Auckland, and in 2001 the Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai’i. Robert has performed his poetry at many festivals and literary events within New Zealand, Canada, USA, and Germany. Robert is an Assistant Professor of English at UH Mānoa, where he teaches creative writing and Maori literature.

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